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From The Internet Movie Plane Database

What Could You See Among Extras ?

The DVD release includes documentary with some footage reused from the movie like ...

McDonnell Aircraft Mercury spacecraft

Friendship 7 used for the third US human spaceflight on Mercury-Atlas 6 mission (February 20, 1962).

... but too some unseen machines. They are :

Wright Flyer I

Well known picture of the first airplane flight, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina; December 17, 1903.

Hanriot-Clerget 50 ch

Reims, France 1911. First French military competition.

Curtiss JN-4 Jenny

Sperry Messenger

A Sperry Messenger mounted for testing in Langley's propeller research tunnel in 1927.

North American P-51B Mustang

North American P-51B Mustang in the full-scale NACA wind tunnel, Langley, Virginia, United States.

Little Joe rocket

Little Joe 1 launch vehicle with Mercury capsule, August 1959 (flight LJ-6).

Explorer 17 satellite

Explorer 17 (also known as Atmosphere Explorer-A (AE-A) and S6) was the first United States satellite, launched on April 3, 1963.

Chrysler Mercury Redstone

Mercury astronauts John H. Glenn Jr., Virgil I. Grissom and Alan B. Shepard Jr. standing by the Redstone rocket in their spacesuits.

Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk

So not only an interesting biographical film on the three heroines but too an eye catching for aviation and space amateur. LVCDC (talk) 13:09, 2 March 2018 (MST)